Trip Ideas
2024: PNW tours/OP/Vancouver Island (April-June); Great Divide Route (late June); Australia; New Zealand (Nov)
Beyond: Southeast Asia; European Divide; Pamir Highway/Tajikistan/Central Asia; Trekking in the Indian Himalayas
Trip Ideas
2024: NW Nonstop (June); Great Divide Route (July)
Beyond: Southeast Asia; European Divide; Pamir Highway/Tajikistan/Central Asia; Australia Circumnavigation; New Zealand; Trekking in the Indian Himalayas
Current Tour Bikes
2023 Tumbleweed Prospector – Rohloff/Schmidt, 29×2.6″ Maxxis Rekons.
2024 Fairlight Faran 2.5 – GRX 2×12, 650×47 Panaracer SK Gravelkings.
2019 Salsa Titanium Timberjack – DT350 hubs, XTR brakes, Rohloff/Schmidt hubs, Koga Denham bars. Whiskey 9 carbon fork. 29×2.6″ Maxxis Rekons.
2017 Surly Troll – 3×10, DT350/Schmidt hubs, Avid/Yokozona brakes. 26×2.5″ Surly Extraterrestrials, Jones bars.
1990 REI Ponderosa with S&S couplings – 3x10sp thumbshifters, 26×2 Scwalbe Mondials, White Industries/Schmidt hubs, canti brakes, 2.5 Jones bars.
Stuff
Gear: After decades of touring, backpacking and travel I have enough stuff.
Training: Touring regularly is the preferred method. Also trail running as there’s no snow for my preferred XC skiing!
A few things to improve: GPS/photo skills.
That’s the current state of things so far..
